Today's leak is a power play to seize control of the Big East conference. The goal is to retain the Big East name.

They tell football their options are:A: We dissolve the league on June 30, you don't have the Big East name or conference assets (NCAA shares, exit fees), no autobid and we fight like hell in court for a decade over it all.B: You leave first, peacefully, with a negotiated settlement of some of those assets, but we get the Big East name.

Today's leak is a power play to seize control of the Big East conference. The goal is to retain the Big East name.

They tell football their options are:A: We dissolve the league on June 30, you don't have the Big East name or conference assets (NCAA shares, exit fees), no autobid and we fight like hell in court for a decade over it all.B: You leave first, peacefully, with a negotiated settlement of some of those assets, but we get the Big East name.

This divorce settlement should be interesting. I feel like UConn is going to try to be the most accommodating and/or try to weasel a way to go with them for Olympic sports for a couple of years while they continue to wait for their ACC ship to come in. Plus UConn is going to want to still play Villanova, Georgetown, and St John's OOC and that won't be possible if UConn gives them a hard time settling. Cincinnati and USF on the other hand are going to want to fight them tooth and nail for assets because they are going to be pretty permanently hitched to the incoming C-USA schools and are going to lose a lot in the divorce. Then you have poor Temple, who doesn't even get a say.

The NCAA definitely needs to give the faction that is forced to leave an auto bid--it would be terribly unfair not to considering that the misfits who will be parading around as the WAC next year will have an autobid.

On a separate note--if the MAC offered Temple, Cincinnati, and UConn membership I wonder if those 3 would simply laugh at them or consider it seriously.

Today's leak is a power play to seize control of the Big East conference. The goal is to retain the Big East name.

They tell football their options are:A: We dissolve the league on June 30, you don't have the Big East name or conference assets (NCAA shares, exit fees), no autobid and we fight like hell in court for a decade over it all.B: You leave first, peacefully, with a negotiated settlement of some of those assets, but we get the Big East name.

This divorce settlement should be interesting. I feel like UConn is going to try to be the most accommodating and/or try to weasel a way to go with them for Olympic sports for a couple of years while they continue to wait for their ACC ship to come in. Plus UConn is going to want to still play Villanova, Georgetown, and St John's OOC and that won't be possible if UConn gives them a hard time settling. Cincinnati and USF on the other hand are going to want to fight them tooth and nail for assets because they are going to be pretty permanently hitched to the incoming C-USA schools and are going to lose a lot in the divorce. Then you have poor Temple, who doesn't even get a say.

The NCAA definitely needs to give the faction that is forced to leave an auto bid--it would be terribly unfair not to considering that the misfits who will be parading around as the WAC next year will have an autobid.

On a separate note--if the MAC offered Temple, Cincinnati, and UConn membership I wonder if those 3 would simply laugh at them or consider it seriously.

Probably laugh. Even if BSU and SDSU pull out, they have Houston, SMU, UCF, USF, Tulane, could add Buffalo, UMass, UAB and Tulsa for 12.

"It may look a lot like the old C-USA, but it's certainly better than the new C-USA."

Today's leak is a power play to seize control of the Big East conference. The goal is to retain the Big East name.

They tell football their options are:A: We dissolve the league on June 30, you don't have the Big East name or conference assets (NCAA shares, exit fees), no autobid and we fight like hell in court for a decade over it all.B: You leave first, peacefully, with a negotiated settlement of some of those assets, but we get the Big East name.

I think it will be even uglier.

The Basketball7 made one big mistake...they AGREED to the conference changes, voting in favor of these schools that had to pay exit fees from their previous conferences to join. That's a case right there for those football schools to collect "damages" and compensation. As for USF, Cincy and UConn, they will get a huge payday no matter what.

Seriously. No need to mess around with the Big West nonsense. Just take the Big East 12, add 4 more (Fresno St., UNLV, Nevada, New Mexico) and setup a 16 school all-sports conference with 8 in the west, 8 in the east. Throw Umass in the east to give 3 northeast schools. Just do home-and-homes within the division with select cross division games to cut back on cross country travel.

Article out of Milwaukee reporting that a key obstacle to the BE BB schools officially leaving is getting Georgetown on board.This is expected to occur shortly with an official announcement expected as early as Friday.Link at http://www.jsonline.com/sports/goldenea ... 39151.html

Article out of Milwaukee reporting that a key obstacle to the BE BB schools officially leaving is getting Georgetown on board.This is expected to occur shortly with an official announcement expected as early as Friday.Link at http://www.jsonline.com/sports/goldenea ... 39151.html

The article says that Xavier and Butler are already on board as members #8 and #9. Has anyone seen a second source that confirms this?

the seven Catholic schools in the Big East have agreed to leave the conference and are debating the process of departing it, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

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How DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall and Villanova leave the Big East is still undetermined.

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Aresco also had a conference call with the athletic directors of the remaining and incoming schools later Thursday. He told them he expects the basketball schools to leave, but they are still weighing their options on how to do so, said a source with direct knowledge of the situation. On the call, Aresco told the ADs that he had not officially heard from the group of seven that they were leaving.

According to the source, there are lots of interpretation on exit fees, the waiting period, and on who gets the Big East name and Madison Square Garden for a conference basketball tournament.

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